joshua chamberlain. so chamberlain was in charge day, i'm sorry to say. and chamberlain actually, it's very dramatic. and of course, went along with the story to it's very dramatic that they give a final salute to the confederate officers. go ahead. just a couple more slides. so what's the price of honor? war is over on march. in march, march 25th, actually was lee's failed attempt at fort the war is over, but there's still more. two more weeks to go. and these are the casualties. and those last two weeks,. 13,209 union casualties and 21,009 and 50 confederate casualties. and that doesn't include the number, 28,000 or so that actually surrendered at appomattox. okay. so in those last two weeks, that's the total that's the blood total of of the slow retreat to appomattox. and, you know, mostly these are my numbers. i just went back to the some of the major battles and found out what the casualties were. at every battle. thomas livermore, who wrote his book the 1880s, said that between march 29th and april 9th, there were 1316 killed, 7750 wounded, and 1700

he contacts the republican chamberlain, the offers this order. major general joshua earl chamberlain is authorized and directed to protect the public property and institutions of the state until my successor is duly qualified. that should be on july january seven. duty called chamberlain once more. he arrives in augusta on january five. he found the state boarded up with wood. he entered and established himself in a small office. his first orders was dismissed the paramilitary force. chamberlain had now become the military governor of the state in his unanticipated position, he decided to keep clear of all civilian and political decisions. he didn't have the authority to which of the counted out lawmaker orders were duly elected. but in these last first days of january, that didn't stop the including the republicans from ratcheting up their fear against him. everything is confusion here. lawrence wrote on january seven. he tried to assure her, although i succeeded in getting a good many awkward things straightened out at the same. what vexes me the most that our own

another man of faith and intellectual achievement, a figure well known here in gettysburg, joshua lawrence chamberlain, who is the subject of ron's most recent work on great fields. the life and unlikely heroism of joshua lawrence chamberlain, which he spoke about earlier today in harold holder's. i could probably just say his name and. leave it at that. but i won't. whether a first time attendee of the forum or a seasoned veteran, we all know harold as one of the country's leading authorities on, abraham lincoln and the political culture of the civil war era. he is a prolific writer and lecturer and a frequent television commentator for the six years between 2020 ten and 2016. harold served as the chairman of the lincoln bicentennial foundation following the previous decade of service as the co-chair of the u.s. abraham lincoln bicentennial commission. like our lincoln forum chairman, john white, based on his study output and public engagement, i'm not sure that our forum actually sleeps either. harold currently serves the john f, jonathan f stanton, director of hunter college's roosevelt house publi